(Springfield, IL) — A lot of visitors spent a lot of money in Illinois last year. Governor Rauner’s office earlier in the week said tourism in 2017 set a record and was worth almost 40 billion dollars to the state. That’s actually up by about a billion. Chicago is still the state’s most popular tourist destination, but the governor’s office says a number of tourism campaigns in the rest of the state helped increase the state’s visitor numbers to nearly 114 million people.